VIDEO: Colbert a D.C. hero?

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) has long been fighting for voting rights for D.C. residents and fighting with "Comedy Central" star Stephen Colbert, who regularly skewers her sarcastically on "The Colbert Report" about whether D.C. deserves the vote.

POLITICO caught up with Holmes Norton on Capitol Hill Tuesday night, following President Barack Obama's speech. Earlier in the day, the U.S. Senate decided to take up a D.C. voting rights bill for the first time since the 1970s.

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Norton told POLITICO that, for all of Colbert's digs and pokes, D.C. residents owe him a huge debt.